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There's a Little Bit of Color 



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Copyright, 1919 

BY 

ELTSHA WHIPPLE McGUIRE 



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There's a Little Bit of Color 




There's a Little Bit of Color 



There's a little bit of color 

Floating softly overhead, 
Gently gleaming in the sunshine 

Bits of blue and white and red. 
Only just a starry banner 

In the gleam of light I see, 
'Tis a little bit of color 

But it means the world to me. 



Now I see it in a vision 

Borne by living arms of steel 
On the awful field of battle 

Where before it foemen reel. 
Taut its lines and torn its fabric 

'Mid the storm of shot and shell, 
Tis the emblem now of justice 

And of tyranny the knell. 



If the bearer of the banner 

On the field shall chance to fall, 
There are millions more of freemen 

That shall grasp it at his call, 
And can have no greater honor 

Than to bear it firm and high, 
For the love they bear their country 

And they do not fear to die. 



Then I'll raise the bit of color 

As the dearest thing of all, 
Emblem of the light of freemen 

Who shall gather at its call. 
Floating proudly o'er our country 

Idolized from sea to sea 
*Tis a little bit of color 

But it means the world to me. 




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